Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have a second question. Ms Cliona Sharkey might be interested in answering this as well because she represents an agency with a global perspective. In some of the arguments and discussions we have had about land use and the area of agriculture, the message we have heard is that Irish farming and agriculture are low-carbon relative to that of other jurisdictions, that we have an obligation to feed the world, 10 billion people, and that we should be able to meet our Food Harvest 2020 plan targets as well as the targets of our climate plans. Is there a scientific or, indeed, a global perspective on this? It is a global argument, I suppose, in the sense that our beef is lower-carbon than Belgian beef or Brazilian beef, perhaps. What cognisance do the witnesses think we should take of these arguments? How do we assess them?